This is very timely. My wife and I are huge google docs users and we were just chatting over the weekend about how slow docs seemed to be with large documents.<p>Docs has really replaced a lot of our use of MS Office. Its not a power users replacement, but I have to give serious props to google for turning out a set of web apps that are 'good enough' for the vast bulk of my uses.
The standalone drawing editor may be really significant. It fills a gap that isn't really met very well in the MS Office suite - a lot of people use PowerPoint for these kinds of drawings, flowcharts, and posters, but it really isn't ideal.
Personally, I find Zoho.com to be a lot more feature-complete than Google Docs. There are times when the document editor in Google Docs is downright infuriating when trying to get the right formatting, but Zoho just seems to work.
It seems there are fewer and fewer reasons for Google Wave. Maybe that’s the better strategy anyways, bringing Wave tech to Gmail and Docs seems a lot easier than swallowing Gmail and Docs whole as Wave seems to try at the moment.
If they fix the formatting issues with bulleted lists, I will be happy. (If you haven't made and revised a lot of bullets on, say, a resume, you may not have felt my pain.)
I find Google Docs to be useful as a starting point. Nowadays I will start my spreadsheets/financial models in Google Docs and then once I've finished, bring them into Excel for formatting purposes to get ready to print. So far this method works pretty well.<p>I'd love to do it all in Google Docs but the print formatting is almost always messed up.
That introductory video makes it look so nice the only thing it needs now is a proper desktop client to get rid of the chrome title bar and tab bar and address bar and google menu bar and google docs title bar... ;)<p>Also: Bonjour / Zeroconf / simultaneous editing is <i>seriously lacking</i> in the LAN/desktop space. :(
A better way to edit the CSS would be helpful (right now it opens in a tiny little box) since Google Docs screws up the formatting so often. As it stands now, it is nearly impossible to make heavy changes to any document with tables and nested bullets without going in and fixing the autogenerated CSS.
I hate the missing no-distractions mode (hide controls) and the missing full width view. This is the 21st century! Why are they emulating paper pages? Sure, that's a view that might be useful. I don't want it as my default, however.